CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1933, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

EVEREST EXPEDITION. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] CALCUTTA, August 12. The Mount Everest _ Committee is planning a new expedition in 1935, according to a statement by Mr Rutledge, at Bombay, before sailing for England. He added the mountain would never be climbed unless the weather were favourable. LOAN CONVERSIONS. LONDON, August 12. The “Daily Telegraph’s” financial writer says: It is thought likely that in view of the favourable market, Australian and South African loans conversions, may be expected. TREASURY BILLS. RUGBY, August 11. Applications for to-day’s tenders for forty millions worth of Treasury bills totalled 65J millions. The average rate of the tenders accepted is-5/5.19d per cent. GREEK LOAN. RUGBY, August 11. It is stated that a Greek proposal for a reduction of the interest payable on the League of Nations loans to Greece, is under discussion between the Greek Government, and the League Loans Committee, and the Council of Foreign Bondholders. HEAT WAVE ENDED. RUGBY, August 11. The weather broke to-day, light rains being general throughout Britain. TOM MANN BARRED. LONDON, August 13. The American Government has refused to allow Tom Mann to enter the United States, whither he had decided to proceed as head of the British antiwar delegation, owing to his conviction on December 16, and also because he was banned in 1923, owing to his suspected sympathies with the I.W.W. WOOL INDUSTRY. LONDON, August 13. Mr Devereux says: Despite some anxiety over international politics and the quietness due to the holidays, the wool markets are optimistic. Yorkshire manufacturing is active. Continental establishments held stocks of tops on Ju,ly 31, totalling thirty million kilos, a reduction of over one million in merinos, and a slight increase in crossbreds. CANADIAN RAILWAYMEN. MONTREAL, August 11. More than two hundred thousand representatives of the Standard Railway Organisations will band together in a monster co-operative association within two weeks. This was announced to-night. It is the outgrowth of a conference that was held of the Railroad labour representatives. The Association is being organised for “industrial, economic and legislative purposes in general, and, in particular, to oppose the present unjust and unwarranted wage cut proposed by the Canadian Railways.”